ADVERTISEMENTS. All advertisements must be paid for previous to &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; insertion, unless forwarded by such of our friends as have opened monthly accounts at the Office; and Advertisers are requested particularly to notice that advertisements once inserted will be continued and charged for &amp;nbsp; unless countermanded by six o'clock on Thurs- day evening. FOR BATAVIA, To sail in a few days, THE fine fast-sailing barque &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; ALMA, Al, P. Anderson, commander. This vessel has comfortable ac- &amp;nbsp; commodation for freight or pas- sage. Apply to Captain Anderson on board, or to JOHN WALKER, Hindley-street. FOR BATAVIA, &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; To sail positively on the 20th June, THE fine fast-sailing ship &amp;nbsp; PLANTER, 350 tons, &amp;nbsp; James Beazely, commander. She has good accommodation for passengers. for freight or passage apply to the Captain on board, or to J. WALKER, 75, Hindley-street. FOR POR...

EXTRACTS. PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF THE SOCIETY ISLANDS.—The Society Islands no longer retain those practices so disgraceful to humanity, de- scribed by the early navigators: no longer do we behold a concourse of aimed men dragging their victims to sacrifice: no longer is heard, revebe- rating from hill to hill, the appalling and dis- sonant sound of the war conch. The senseless images of wood and stone, worshipped through a series of bygone ages, now lie mouldering in &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; oblivion, while Christianity rears her meek and holy faith upon the ruins of ignorance and false- hood. Who, possessing one sentiment of philan- thropy, could gaze, uninfluenced by pleasurable emotions, on a ludicrous assembly of converted heathens, uniting in prayer and praise to the only true God—listening with rapt attention to the promise of salvation—the words of eternal life pronounced in the soft harmonious language of their own native isles, or could withhold his tribute of praise...

RIGHTS OF PURCHASERS IN ENG- LAND OF EIGHTY-ACRE LAND ORDERS. WHEN the cosmogany man in the Vicar of Wakefield sold Moses the gross of green spectacles, he told him they were excellent of their kind, and "dirt cheap" into the bargain. The poor boy could nevery understand why his mother cuffed him soundly for so good a purchase. It is, we suspect, under an obtusity somewhat akin to that of moses, that the 80- acre English land order buyers continue to labor. They are told by some cosmogony man at the Adelphi that they could take their land &amp;nbsp; in preference to all others on reaching the colony ; they found another cosmogany man here who told them the same story; and not- withstanding they soon discovered that no such advantages would be permitted, and despite the cuffing they have since received from the Commissioner and from ourselves, they con- tinue, like Moses, under the belief that the " rims would melt for double the money" and that their land orders are worth twice ...

TO HOLDIiRS OF LAND OUDBK6. MESSRS. LIGHT, FINNISS, &amp; CO. having completed a very minute examination of the country to be opened for selection, according to the Government Order, on the 10th June, are ready to advise parties holding land orders In their choice. Stephens-place, Tbur*day, May 28. TO BE BOLD "V riUVATK CONTRACT, PORTIONS oi et.'Jone C, F, and H, New Port; 173 and 214 Glenelg; and 393 Wert. terrace, Adelaide. ALSO. A choice block of about four hundred acres on the upper banks of the Torrens, for which Lund Ordets will be taken in part payment, or a mode* rate credit given. Apptv?t Mr. Symondi, surveyor, Waketield. ctrttt x>ri*>?quar?. THE TOWN CLOCK. THE arrangements for setting tlie Town Clock going baying been completed, the public are informed that the subscriptions already re ceived are totally inadequate to meet the cxpeiices i incurred. It is hoped tbat this statement v ill be sufficient to induce such persons as have not already subscribed to do so ...

PORT PHILLIP WE have always freely acknowledged that the good folks of Adelaide could not compete with their neighbours of "Australia the Blessed," as our contemporaries of Port Phillip delight to call their fine country. The refined and intellectual tone which pervades the latter will be best understood by the following extracts from the Police Reports published in Fawkner's Melbourne Patriot. We must apoligize to our readers for transferring the blackguardism te our columns ; but we really know no other way of conveying to their minds the full amount of the superiority of Port Phillip morals :— Scenes in High Life—On Friday, near mid- night, some two or three cowardly fellows, evi- dently disguised, commenced at our residence a riotous disturbance of the vilest and grossest na- ture (as we are informed), using the most obscene and horrible language; and after being turned &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; away by our servant, they were traced into the &am...

THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GAZETTE. ALL PUBLIC ACTS appearing in this Gazette, signed by the proper authorities, are to be con- sidered official and obeyed as such. By command, GEO. M. STEPHEN, Colonial Secretary GOVERNMENT ORDER. (No. 24.) Colonial Secretary's Office, Adelaide, June 14, 1839. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint GEORGE. STRICKLAND KINGSTON, Esq., Civil Engineer and Inspector of Public Works for the Province of South Australia. By his Excellency's command, GEO. M. STEPHEN. Colonial Secretary. GOVERNMENT ORDER. (No. 23.) Colonial Secretary's Office, Adelaide, June 7, 1839. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint J. P. Litchfield, Esq., M.D., Inspector of Hospitals for the Province. By his Excellency's command, GEO. M. STEPHEN, Colonial Secretary. GOVERNMENT NOTICE. Government Notice, June 7, 1839. PERSONS inhabiting houses on the Park Land are warned that, according to the Government Order of the 3rd November, 1838, and their own agreemen...

THE COLONIAL REGISTER. SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1839. PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY. ROBERT COCK. EVERY day brings us some new and interesting facts connected with the geography of this province; and we consider that in devoting the greatest possible space of our journal to their publicity, we are doing the best service in our power to all connected with this rising colony. Three of the great links in the chain of communication westward from Adelaide have at length been finally secured— first, by the magnificent harbour of Port Lincoln, on the western shores of Spencer's Gulf; second, by the discovery of an available harbour nearly opposite to Port Lincoln on the eastern shores of the same Gulf, called Port Victoria ; and, third, by a safe and commodious anchorage on the western shores of Gulf St. Vincent, nearly in the game parallel of latitude with Port Adelaide and Glenelg. This last men- tioned harbour has been named Port St. Vincent. &amp;nbsp; At these three harbours special surveys, ea...

FOR FUKIOHT OR CHARIER, -iflh SW FT* HE fine fast sailing ship SIR +&amp;mmk * CHARLES FORBES, A '• 400 tons, C. Lainc, com •^wlijff^ffp This vessel being well known as v remarkably fast sailer, offer? a dciirable op portunity where dispatch is requited. Apply to CHAS. BECK &amp; CO. Adelaide, June 11,1839. TO CONSIGNEES PER SIR CHARLES FORBES, FROM LIVERPOOL. by the above vessel j^payt j are requested to remove their goods immediately they are landed, as the Captain will not be responsible for any loss or damage that may occur after the goods arc placed on the whaif at Port Adelaide. CHAS. BECK &amp; CO. Agents to the Sir Charles Forbes. Adelaide, June 11, 1839. ADELAIDE SUKVEV ASSOCIATION. fTIHE Shareholders of the association arc re- JL quested to meet at Mr. Richardson's Store on Monday evening next, at 6 o'clock, when important business will be brought before them. The Com in it tee will meet one hour before the public meeting. HENRY GILES. "^?i'Jiin^, vlft39. Secre...